When new ideas have not yet blossomed like wildfire, in the chaos of the old and the new, a part of the bottom will always unite with the elites and vested interests of the old era, especially after the group of people who are just knocking out the bones and marrow have changed their appearance and changed their ways.

As the first area to be hit, the economic system of the old era has disintegrated, and it seems to be thriving and progressing, but the pillars of the original urban and rural areas, such as yeoman farmers and small handicraftsmen, are not doing very well - are they working in factories for 144 or 5 hours a day for seven or eight years? Or are there dozens of acres of land for self-sufficiency? Normal people make these two choices, and these two choices are normal "countries" or "nations" will also make normal choices, but obviously the two choices go their separate ways.

For the first time, the forces of the old world united a part of the underclass, which was simply unimaginable in the past, and completely beyond the understanding of change by many sympathetic people at the bottom.

About once there was only one upper layer, but now the upper layer has become two, and it has not merged for the time being, so the two pieces of seem to be slightly better than the former, at least get used to it, and the old era still has feelings after all, not only pure money relations, but also room for dreams, in case the old man is pitiful.

This kind of change is difficult for Hu Lin to accept for a while, a few years ago when he stood with Chen Jian in high spirits to guide the miners to fight for their rights, he can proudly and proudly say that he is for the bottom of the country, but now what is he for? For whom?

Hu Lin, who was seriously injured, chose to be tired, chose to go home, and chose not to ask about all this anymore.

Chen Jian, who went north, did not have such good luck, so he could only bear all this, and he did not dare to retreat and could not retreat.

The ships made a short stop at a mandatory port not far from the Acropolis of Haiphong before arriving at the Acropolis, a port outside the capital.

The news of his imminent arrival in the capital had been carried along the fast horses by land, and when the ship arrived and was about to leave for the capital, he was greeted by a celebratory procession that he was not expecting.

At this time, what happened in Mincheng had not been reported here, and even a storm had just been brewed, and even if the capital was well-informed, it was impossible to know what would happen in the future.

So an extraordinarily large welcoming ceremony was held in the Acropolis of Haiphong, where the Ministry of Rites Shangshu personally appeared on behalf of the official, as well as 1,600 elite soldiers, as well as a spontaneously organized crowd.

Although Chen Jian was not one of the first people of the Republic to sail around the world, the scale of his welcome was the most grand of all the people who returned in batches.

Even before he set foot in the capital, the streets of the capital knew that there was a huge empire similar to theirs on the east side of the ocean, that the general of a country called Japan had sent an envoy to visit the capital, and that the country had given the king and the council of strange shapes.

The fleets that returned in batches proved that the mathematical and astronomical speculations were correct, that the earth was indeed round, and that gravity existed, and that the magnet attracted the nail centripetal rather than downward, and that the concept of space was relative to each other, sparking a wave of discussion among the brewery and teahouse and the new shops with strange new drinks such as coffee and cocoa.

Different people attach different importance to this round-the-world voyage, especially some big families in the capital, who are envious and jealous after seeing the profits and dividends of the Nanyang Company in Mincheng, which makes them deeply remember the words "Indian company" that repeatedly appear in the report of this round-the-world voyage, and are full of curiosity about the country of India.

This must be a rich country, otherwise why would countries like the Netherlands and the United Kingdom set up Indian companies instead of companies under other names?

They hope to learn more about India from Jian Chen, but they still need some face. The monopoly of Nanyang Company has only been exchanged for hundreds of thousands of silver coins, and they have no shares, but they have been given a monopoly for twelve years, and they can only wait until it expires before intervening.

But the earth is round, and across the ocean to the east, there is a rich land that Europa envies, which is a godsend for the military family and the big family. They hope to rely on the privileges and rights in their hands to set up a monopoly company, and they don't need to invest much money, they only need to put the monopoly brought by the rights there, and there will naturally be capital rent-seeking.

Moreover, they knew that the means of doing business were inferior to those in the south, and the base of the handicraft industry north of the river was far inferior to that of the south.

But...... Isn't the easiest way to make money rent on the ground? Especially for these old families who rely on land rent and land support, this is the easiest and most acceptable way to increase their strength.

Since it was the Europa people who established the Indian company, not India, and not the Europa company, it is obvious that India's navy is not good, and the ability to centralize power is also poor, otherwise the best choice should be to close the country to ensure the stability of such a large piece of land.

Obviously, judging by the political wisdom accumulated by these families for hundreds of years and the various skills accumulated during the previous rivalry between the nations, this is a piece of fat, and it is a big fat meat for the navy, army, big family, and recruiting low-level displaced people to serve as soldiers to alleviate conflicts and accumulate wealth.

Land rent is much more profitable than trade, at least for now, and it can also increase the power of various families, so why not?

Therefore, those who are really in power need to welcome Jian Chen, and they are convinced of the accuracy of his judgment that Jian has shown before.

In addition to this practical reason for interest, there is also a part of the glory of the republic.

After Chen Jian's ship arrived in Mincheng, a ship went to the capital to tell the capital a good news, and Chen Jian had discovered the southern continent.

If there is anything to the dismay of the people of the Republic, it is that they were not the first to circumnavigate the globe, and that the first to circumnavigate the globe preceded them by more than a hundred years.

Whether it is China, Japan, India or Africa, this is something that most countries in the world already know and exist, and it is inevitable to regret that there is a fly in the ointment.

Of course, the southern continent has existed for a long time, but it was discovered and not because it was discovered. But since there are no countries there, it is only a part of the geographical world, and it is a new continent of the civilized world—the republic does not recognize the idea of a new continent in Europe, and does not recognize that a world without a republic exists as a world, and this statement has long been brought to the courts of Europe by the officials of the Ministry of Rites who had gone to Europe a year ago to negotiate and be stationed in Europe, and their position was clear.

Around a small circle of the concept of "world", the people of the republic, especially the people who love to talk about state affairs in the capital, suddenly found that the first person who really discovered the New World came from the Republic, not Europa, because the Europeans did not recognize the so-called New World of South America as the New World, so it was not.

When I think about it like this, I suddenly open up, and naturally everyone is excited, and firecrackers and gongs and drums are ringing in unison.

In addition to the interests of a few families and the fanatical confidence of the ethnic group, there are more important, direct things that are closely related to the lives of countless people.

For example, the promotion of corn, the promotion of hand-cranked threshers, and the promotion of common sense of corn planting manuals compiled by Chen Jian in Dahuang City.

These three things come together to bring a new kind of feed grain. Straw and corn kernels, which are all excellent feed, many large-scale breeding factories have been set up, and the actual benefit is that many people in the capital can eat pork and chicken.

For example, the promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes, two high-yield crops, has allowed many large land growers to find a good opportunity to make a fortune.

In just two years, the cheaper, cheaper, but larger-selling potato starch and sweet potato wines made it impossible for some of the workshops that made wine from the original grain crops to operate, leaving only high-end fruit wines and cellar wines, and the low-end wine market in the capital was almost monopolized by such wines of this high-yield crop.

Just like the soy sauce that Chen Jian sold in Mincheng ten years ago, the low price and low quality are enough to bankrupt some people, but it is also enough for some people to enjoy things that were difficult to enjoy before.

There was more and cheaper alcohol in the capital, which also created more drunkards and caused many family tragedies.

Wine only caused some family tragedies, and the impact was mainly caused by some wine workshops that were originally undercapitalized.

Although drinking is not good, it is still a very beneficial thing for the middle and bottom who like to drink, and basically it does not have much impact on those big families.

But another crop has created a conflict of interest between some large families: beet lumps that some people brought back from Europe that look like turnips.

This kind of unsightly thing directly announced the destruction of the maple sugar monopoly franchise.

In the case of sugar cane, the big families in the north can't reach out, and by the time they reach out, it's too late, and they are not at all the opponents of those operating capitalists.

Therefore, the matter of sucrose can still be unanimous to the outside world for the big family, after all, they can't make this money, and it is better to let the family with a close relationship with the sugar monopoly make a profit.

But as soon as the beets came out, the whole problem went bad. Beets can be grown here, sugar prices are rising in the north, tea is sweetened, tropical beverages such as coffee and cocoa are introduced, and new sweet and spicy dishes are brought about by chili pepper cultivation......

Sugar is expensive, and it can be used to benefit some family land operations. When the interests were large enough to outweigh those feelings, the "Sugar Beet Cultivation Prohibition Act" was not passed in order to prevent "competing with the people".

This is completely different from the form of the Northern Cane Sugar Consumption Tax imposed on the pretext that the "maple sugar monopoly" was unfair to the Nanyang Company when it was founded. Although the people of Nanyang Company proposed that they could help pay the taxes and fees of this maple sugar monopoly franchise, it would not work - how much was the franchise fee? And how much is the profit? How could it be accepted.

The circumnavigation of the world and the previous exploration of the South Seas brought many seeds and planned promotion directions, like a catfish thrown into the loach, stirred up the base of handicrafts and the advantages of transportation to Europe and colonies in the north, which was not as good as the south, and inevitably introduced more capitalist factors in the land question, and a new round of land annexation was also quietly carried out.

Originally, the income from growing grain was not too large, and there have been no large-scale disasters in recent years, although some accidental accidents will cause speculators to manipulate grain prices, but on the whole grain prices are low.

However, with the advent of new crops, new ways of doing business, and new profits, the profits of land management in the vicinity of the capital city have been higher than the traditional land rent.

I dare not say anything else, but the capital is a huge consumer market, and there is river transportation, which inevitably commoditizes and monetizes a large number of land products.

The position of normal rent has become awkward, and it is obviously more advantageous to operate than to invest in capital, and small leases have become an uneconomical way.

A few years ago, a pamphlet was circulated in the youth home in the capital, discussing the issue of land rent and profits, which made the operators of large areas of land lease who were operational, who had no land rights but had capital, deeply believe that if the rent is high, the profit will be low.

This commoditized revolution has always been the first to occur in the places closest to the big cities and where river transport is most developed. These theories are also the most popular and influential in this area.